Locally owned Tazewell County coffee company closing one of its locations

With "sincere gratitude" and "the heaviest of hearts," the owners of Eli's Coffee Shop have announced the closure of their Mackinaw location. The final day of service will be Sept. 6.

The company announced the closure in a Friday Facebook post.

In a statement on the company's website , owners Rachel and Weston Berchtold wrote, "We close our doors in two weeks resting in the knowledge that we were able to be a bright part of this building’s story and this community for the time we were able."

The Mackinaw location opened in 2022 at 116 S. Main St. in a building that used to be home to Heartland Bank.

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It was the company's fourth site in the Peoria area. The locally owned Eli's also operates coffee shops in Morton, Tremont and Metamora. Those sites remain open.

Eli's Coffee shops are known for their distinctive locations , including the renovated Mackinaw bank. The Morton shop, which opened in 2005, is in a former home at 205 W. Jefferson St. The Tremont location opened in 2014 at 105 W. Pearl St. in the historic Tremont Depot. The Metamora shop, which opened in 2017, is in a 140-year-old building at 101 W. Partridge St. on the village square.

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